Duma Stavropol proposes to ban the « spontaneous content » of stray animals

Deputies of the Stavropol Regional Duma sent a bill to the State Duma on the ban on the « spontaneous content of animals without a license. » According to the Stavropol authorities, private shelters must meet all veterinary requirements for such institutions or close. If the bill is adopted, then numerous volunteer “overexposure” will be outlawed, Irina Gazaryan is sure of the head of the Ark charity foundation. She believes that the initiative will not improve the situation with hopeless animals, but it will complicate the life of zoopoloners.

Amendments to Art. 12 of the Federal Law “On the Licensing of Certain Activities” and the Federal Law “On Responsible Addressing Animals” deputies introduced at the initiative of the Governor of the Territory Vladimir Vladimirov. IN press releasepublished on the Duma website, it is specified that often “hopeless dogs show aggression, including those related to potentially dangerous breeds, which residents in the territory of households are caused uncontrollably.”

In this regard, the Stavropol deputies propose to license « the activity of individuals and legal entities in the spontaneous content of animals without owners and the content of potentially dangerous dogs. »

The initiative also implies a direct ban on « obtaining offspring with the spontaneous content of animals. » The chairman of the Stavropol Regional Duma, Nikolai Velikdan, explained “Kommersant” that by “spontaneous content” the deputies mean precisely private shelters, where “compassionate citizens” gather the remaining animals without hosts and “where these animals can be uncontrolled.”

Those who want to save homeless animals will have to receive a license in the local veterinary department before January 1, 2026. To do this, you will need to have room rooms, separate rooms for cooking and a vetapte. Private shelters, in turn, will have to receive the status of temporary overexposure points and conclude contracts with local administrations that will have to finance their work. “By and large, we put things in order in the house,” Mr. Velikdan summed up. The project has already been sent to the State Duma.

Head of the Savropol charity organization. Ark. Help of animals ”Irina Gazaryan believes that the initiative of the Stavropol authorities will not solve the problem of homeless animals.

She indicates that now there are only two shelters in the region, and they are “clogged by animals under the tie”. At the same time, in Stavropol alone, volunteers in the boxes collect « several hundred puppies and kittens from someone’s pets. » They are trying to distribute them according to “overexposure”, which fall under the definition of the “spontaneous content” of animals from the bill. “Previously, we were invited at least to round tables when these initiatives were discussed. And every year we explained that it would be better for the authorities to declare a year or at least a month of free sterilization of pets. The prices are unbearable for many people – from 5 thousand per dog. But then there would not be necessary to build shelters. But they don’t hear us, ”says Mrs. Gazaryan.

The Stavropol deputies have already twice made edits to the law on animal handling without owners in the Stavropol Territory. In September 2024, in three readings, the regional Duma Accepted Amendments, according to which it is possible to kill animals that « show unmotivated aggression. » In March 2025, after a tragic case when a nine -year -old girl in Stavropol died from dog bites, the legislation decided to change the regulations on an “extraordinary situation”, which allows you to kill any animal, including a healthy one, within five days after admission to the PVR.

Alexandra Larintsev, Pyatigorsk